The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 28
‘If you had looked at the gigantic Beanstalk and only stupidly wondered about it,’ she said, ‘I should have left you where misfortune had placed you, only restoring her cow to your mother.
Who acts: you, Fairy, I · What happens: look, wonder, say, leave, place, restore · To what, where: you, misfortune, cow, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | aux |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Beanstalk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Beanstalk | det |
| 8 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Beanstalk | amod |
| 9 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wondered | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 wondered | advmod |
| 12 | stupidly | stupidly | ADV | _ | 13 wondered | advmod |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wondered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 left | aux |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 left | iobj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 placed | advmod |
| 28 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 placed | aux |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 left | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 restoring | punct |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 restoring | advmod |
| 34 | restoring | restore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 cow | nmod:poss |
| 36 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 restoring | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 mother | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 mother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 restoring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | at the gigantic Beanstalk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beanstalk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | you not said here | about Beanstalk; stupidly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave | should · perfect | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | place | past · perfect · passive | misfortune | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination | |||||
| 6 | restore | gerund | Fairy not said here | Fairy's cow | your mother | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Theme to mother=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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